Phonological Awareness Quiz

What is phonological awareness?

• Understanding individual sounds in words

• Identifying and manipulating units of oral language

• Recognizing spelling patterns

• Teaching concepts about print

What skill is necessary for learning to read any alphabetic writing system?

• Phonemic awareness

• Teaching concepts about print

• Recognizing spelling patterns

• Identifying and making oral rhymes

What is the primary focus of phonemic awareness?

• Understanding letter-sound correspondence

• Recognizing individual sounds in words

• Reading and writing letters according to sounds

• Memorizing sight words

Which skill involves understanding letter-sound correspondence?

• Phonemic awareness

• Phonics

• Sight word recognition

• Vocabulary development

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of phonemic awareness?

• Focus on phonemes

• Mostly auditory

• Focus on graphemes

• Manipulating sounds in words

What follows the onset consonant cluster in a word?

• Rime

• Onset

• Prefix

• Suffix

What is the skill of putting all the sounds in the words together called?

• Blending

• Segmentation

• Isolation

• Deletion

What is the term for separating word parts or isolating a single sound in a word?

• Isolation

• Blending

• Segmentation

• Substitution

Samuel is learning to read and his teacher asks him to segment the word by syllables. Which word from the list below can be segmented by syllables?

• Behind

• Baseball

• Dad

• Cat

Which phonemic awareness skill involves dividing a word into individual sounds?

• Blending

• Segmentation

• Substitution

• Addition